OperaItaliaNow! – 2014

Opera studio + Opera on stage

II edition, Rome 11-27 July 2014

“OperaItaliaNow!” Is a project of international residency for the training and debut of opera singers, orchestral musicians, choral singers and collaborative pianists, with a particular focus on Chamber Musical Theatre, of classical and contemporary repertoire.

The second edition of OperaItaliaNow! is scheduled from 11th to 27th July 2014. Program includes two opera productions: L’impresario in angustie (The Impresario in distress) by Domenico Cimarosa and l’Oca del Cairo (The Goose of Cairo) by W. Amadeus Mozart, which will be presented in diptych. For the Cimarosa’s opera will be realized specially for the occasion a critical review by Domenico Carboni, published by Ars Musica. For Mozart’s opera will be used the edition of Virgilio Mortari.

All foreign students will have the opportunity to attend daily Italian lessons.

Will be invited to attend the performances, festival and theaters directors and music agents.

Continues the collaboration with the Chicago Studio of Professional Singers of Chicago (IL, USA). The project has the patronage by the Italian Centre of the ITI, while it is expected to require again the support and cooperation of the Embassy of the United States of America in Italy and the Hellenic Community of Rome and Lazio. Based on the country of origin of the participants, will be involved the respective diplomatic missions in Rome.

The history of Italian and international melodrama is plenty of less-frequented works, but with no less dramatic and musical value. In particular, the repertoire of the Chamber Musical Theatre between ‘700 and ‘800, is a treasure of tasty musical rarities, which we are sure can still captivate the Roman audience, such as it was in the past, when these works were performed frequently also in the city’s theaters. These works, especially the comic operas with articulated plots, are a unique opportunity for training, often providing interesting ideas for the director, even more useful for the action on stage and not only for the voice of the singers. Indeed Opera, as complex form of theater, which includes different forms of performing arts languages (music, song, dance, painting, sculpture, and more recently, multi-media), is a unique opportunity for the training and professional debut of young artists of different disciplines.

MThI, operating since 2000, already has produced and staged – often for the first time in Rome – several chamber music works, both classical and contemporary. The project OperaNow! therefore fits perfectly into the artistic mission of the association, developing its international dimension.